AUSTIN ­— A sweeping ethics measure that would expose lobbyists' wining and dining, increase financial disclosures and punish corrupt lawmakers sailed through the Senate on Tuesday and heads next to the House.

The ethics bill is a carefully assembled mashup of rules that received wide support in 2015 but nonetheless failed to land on the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott, who had dedicated the last legislative session to the ill-fated overhaul.

The rules include cracking down on tricks lobbyists use to avoid disclosing how much they spend on food, travel and lodging for lawmakers and an automatic ejection from office and revocation of state pensions when elected officials are convicted of public corruption.

The Senate unanimously approved the bill, which is purposefully devoid of any controversy — and is weaker for it. Authored by Sen. Van Taylor, a Plano Republican, the bill is silent on the issue of dark money, the undisclosed millions that are given to political committees that attack or support candidates and issues.

When Sen. José Rodríguez, an El Paso Democrat, said he was disappointed that dark money disclosure wasn't included, Taylor said such a proviso would be "a poison pill" that would incite divisions and could again derail an ethics package.

"I don't think we should put anything controversial on here," Taylor said. "If that were to go on here, in this chamber, I don't think it will go very far."

To increase the chances of the overhaul surviving through the House, Taylor also authored six smaller "single shot" bills that contain the same rules as the big bill. Rep. Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth Republican, authored identical bills in the House, which will suss out the bill in the coming weeks.

Abbott praised the Senate's swift movement and urged passage in the House.

"Representatives in Austin must be voting with their constituents' interests in mind — not their own — and I am confident that this session will lead to increased accountability and meaningful reforms that are desperately needed in Texas," he said in a written statement.

Other measures in the ethics bill would:

· Increase financial disclosure requirements for lawmakers to include local contracts they hold for goods and services totaling $10,000 or more in a year.

· Require officials to disclose if their spouses, children or business entities, who own majority interest in a company, have such contracts with a local government.

· Lower the dollar threshold for when lobbyists must report paying for meals or transportation for officials.

· Add disclosure requirements for meals and transportation for officials' immediate family paid for by lobbyists.

· Require lobbyists to report to the Texas Ethics Commission the total bill amount for expenses paid on behalf of elected officials or their family. This closes a loophole that lobbyists have exploited: splitting large bar and restaurant tabs, for instance, among several lobbyists to avoid reporting thresholds.

· Restrict former lawmakers from immediately returning to the Capitol as paid lobbyists by making them wait a full legislative cycle, two years, before they can register as a lobbyist.

The original bill also created a criminal penalty, a Class A misdemeanor, if former lawmakers engage in lobbying activity before that period ends. An amendment to Taylor's bill downgraded that offense to a Class B misdemeanor.